Sitemaps

[informatica810]

Hi, I have doubt using sitemaps My web page is a news we page and we have thousands of articles in every section. For example we have an area that is called technology We have articles since 1999!! So the question is how can Make googl robot index them? Months ago when you enter the section technology we used to have a paginator without limits, but we notice that this query consume a lot of CPU per user every time was clicked. So we decide to limit to 10 pages with 1 records. Now it works great BUT I can see in google webmaster tools that our index decreased dramatically The answer is very easy, the bot doesn't have a way to get older technoly news articles because we limit he query to 150 records total Well, the Questin is how can I fix this? Options: 1) leave the query without limits 2) create a new button " all tech news" with a different query without a limit but paginated with (for example) 200 records each page 3) Create a sitemap that contain all the tech articles Any idea? Really thanks.

[danatanseo]

I would highly recommend submitting a sitemap. I am surprised you haven't already. Is it because there are so many articles? Is there any way to generate an automated list of your article URLs? If you can then formatting a sitemap shouldn't be that difficult even if there are a huge number of them. I also like your idea of adding the "View all" option. The company where I do in-house SEO is battling pagination issues at the moment and we believe this is a good solution and it is one that is supported and even recommended by Google here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/03/video-about-pagination-with-relnext-and.html

I hope that helps a bit!

[informatica810]

Hi Dana!! I have implemented pagination tags prev and next already and I saw that video. It's great. What happens if I have a sitemap.xml and I omitted articles? Are sitemaps complementary or if you upload a sitemaps then google only use that and nothing else? If are complementary I can do it monthly and append the new articles per each area of my web page, is that correct? Thanks you Dana